Surely Toni you can read between the lines of green policy. Their history is one of never being satisfied until they have total control, & have totally destroyed other peoples activities & dreams.

You are totally wrong about hunting too. It has nothing to do with "bang" noises, it is satisfying our primal instinct to feed our selves. Feeding ourselves from nature is closer to nature than catching a duck at the supermarket. Those even closer to our instincts will hunt with a bow or a snare, no bang needed. You & the greens are further from nature than that bloke with his gun.

My shotgun never fired a round without supplying something for the table, even if only a hand of coconuts shot down from a palm too high to climb.

I personally would never bother with duck hunting, no matter how much effort you put into cooking, they are simply not worth eating, except as emergency food. Thinking of emergency, which will come some time, it is only those capable of catching food other than in the super market who will survive. Perhaps you should start practising.

The same goes for fishing, people prove they could feed their family. The catch & release system practised by game fishermen is great. They get to satisfy the need to be able to provide their own food, but can then release the target unharmed. I have run hundreds of tourist Great Barrier Reef fishing trips, but don't eat fish, apart from Spanish Marcel.

At times I was out there for weeks, with new parties & supplies flown out to rendezvous by seaplane. I was happy out there, provided the stake supply was maintained. Ask me to eat the catch, & the boat was on it's way back to civilisation.

Is Mise,

I'm afraid I don't agree.
What's really happening in your example is that despite still not having an overall majority there are more people in direct support of A than B, but B gets elected with less votes than A and there are more people voting against the winner than for him/her.

The second place-getter in any sporting event isn't awarded first prize.

Being forced to allocate preferences for candidates you don't necessarily support amplifies a distortion in the system.
Making preferential voting optional would change the outcome of most elections.

It's not "sport" if only one side knows what's happening and has total technological advantage over the other.
Perhaps to satisfy their blood-lust, there should be a private farm somewhere where shooters could go and shoot ducks in a pen.

rache,

How do you know that the majority of the voters don't hate A's guts?
The system needs tweaking, doing away with voting above the line would be a good start..
People aren't asked if they like the candidates, just their preference or who they hate least in their desired order.

What's your thoughts on First Past the Post?

Perhaps horse racing isn't a sport either or frog jumping competitions but they are defined as sports so we're stuck with them as sports.

Perhaps you are a vegetarian or do you think that all meat eaters should satisfy their blood lust by going to a farm and killing their own meat rather than having abattoirs?

Dear Is Mise,

These are the types of costs I m talking about.

"King Valley residents have told authorities that illegal hunters — many who travel to the region from across the state — were flouting hunting laws nightly, and were putting livestock and human lives at risk, while leaving behind a trail of bloody, headless carcasses near roads and homes."

This is the kind of life residents are forced to lead;

""Every time we see spot lighters on the road, we have to turn the lights on in the house just to make sure they go away or they don't shoot at us."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-26/illegal-hunting-has-residents-fearful/9911904

What will you say after the first fatality in the region? "Sorry, off to get some more polish."?

Hassy, what a load of guff. //Their (Greens) history is one of never being satisfied until they have total control, & have totally destroyed other peoples activities & dreams.//
Its more a case of selfish people like you, who are intent on destroying the environment to satisfy your own greedy commercial interests. Its partly through the reckless destructive actions of commercial operators //I (Hasbeen) have run hundreds of tourist Great Barrier Reef fishing trips// that now sees the Reef in such an environmentally perilous state. Do you take any personal responsibility for the calamitous conditions that today exist on the Great Barrier Reef, I think not.
I hope the splinters from the stakes got stuck in your tongue!

As for the erroneous claims against Nicole Rowan by the Australian chapter of the Yankee NRA put forward in their (SSAA) propaganda piece, and linked to by Is Mise, they are exactly that erroneous. They contain nothing of truthful substance what so ever. Nicole will make a great addition to the Victorian Parliament.
Issy do you expect your Shooters and Hooters Party to improve on their miserable 2014 vote of 0.08%.

Paul,

You did read it after all, good lad.

Now how about a reference or two and some substantiation that what the SSAA has said is wrong.

How are you going on the funds tracing trail?